Weekly Hashkafa Shiur #88 | Unleashing a Monster

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

you know before i give this year there is a crisis in this world that is happening and um there are certain observations and thoughts which i've had which are different i think than most people um so maybe i'll just talk a little about that in terms of what i think is happening and so on um you know for those who are familiar of course uh putin from russia attacked ukraine and he's now really bombing ukraine and the same 1.7 million people have fled ukraine that's a lot of people and we we cannot even you know we live thank god in relative safety we cannot even begin to understand the upheaval the turmoil of what that means imagine somebody's got to take his whole family move to a place that he has no idea where to go right you have to leave a job community everything and go to unknown or you don't know about how long i mean it's a terrible price no question about that you know um but certain ideas which i think are important one of them will contradict what almost the entire world is saying know you know there's this there's a certain saying i think it's in english where it says that surrender is the better part of valor that means sometimes the better part of valor valor valor means bravery sometimes the best form of exhibiting bravery is to surrender you see what does that mean you know a person has to exercise wisdom in everything and i believe that this war really um with zelenko refused zelinski i should say refused to give in to russia was a terrible mistake on his part

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1. 0:00you know before i give this year there is a crisis in this world that is…
2. 5:36you can't do this you cannot send missiles to our next door neighbor which is only…
3. 11:46this makes no sense you know what he did is he subjected his nation to an…
4. 17:55you mean a guy that ran from afghanistan and left all the americans to fend on…
5. 24:07and that is a punishment to the world you want to threaten my people existentially and…
6. 30:13he zelinski does not know and because of that he has put his nation on the…
7. 36:50perverse depraved degenerate nation morally and ethically this is what's happened with america and god will…
8. 42:56for you see even an evil person if he does a righteous deed must be rewarded…
9. 49:12i mean did it say how long the darkness lasts because if you really think about…
10. 55:22that's all part of the punishment you see is you know is economic punishment i mean…

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